The Curmudgeon in residence is John Holditch, a seventy-five year old lawyer, formerly a partner in a large law firm and a member of the American Bar Association, but for the past 30 years a sole practitioner and member of practically nothing, who for the past several years has been testing the assertion of a delightful, now deceased, former partner who maintained that the practice of law would be an utter joy were it not for the inconvenience of dealing with clients.

Having run off all but the most devoted of them, I have found that keeping a few is helpful in paying the rent, but in general their absence has left me free to ruminate about subjects as far afield from the law (I doubt that I am much fonder of lawyers than many of you, perhaps less so since I have to deal with them more often) as politics and current events, horse racing, and popular culture, all of which I find immensely more interesting.

As you will observe if you delve deeper into this website, those ruminations are often of a type (popularly denigrated as "politically incorrect") which would not win me much favor in the mainstream media or an invitation to return to my eastern college, or even my somewhat more conservative law school, assuming that I had a desire to return, which happily I do not.

I am blessed with a particularly forgiving family comprised of a delightful and tolerant wife, a married daughter, her husband and their two young daughters, a son recently married, his beautiful bride and their young son, all of whom are much kinder to me than I deserve.

By way of a guide to the site, it is my intention to be at least somewhat serious (you may not think so) about the pages entitled News Views, Horse Racing, and Popular Culture, and a little less so about the page entitled Bad Thoughts in which The Curmudgeon gives vent to the exasperations that afflict any crusty old dinosaur in an earnest and politically correct age. I will be changing the page postings from time to time, but on an indolent and irregular schedule. I hope you will check back occasionally, and that I don't run you off too soon.

What's new: " 'Honest Loyalty' to President Trump in Short Supply," the first (or top) article on the News Views page; "The Media Pursues its Unicorn Through the Political Landscape," the second article on the News Views page; "Holy Bull, Champion Race Horse of 1994, Gone at 26," the first article on the Horse Racing page; "Trump Derangement Syndrome Moves From the Streets and the National Mall to the Senate, the Federal Courts, and Even to Retail," the first article on the Popular Culture page; "This Is the Life We Have Chosen," the second article on the Popular Cultural page; "An Old Democrat's Take on the National Derangement," the first article on the Bad Thoughts page; "Putin and the FBI Ate Hillary's Homework," the second article on the Bad Thoughts page; "Where the Boys Are, and Other Special Places in Hell for Young Women Who Support Bernie," the third article on the Bad Thoughts page.

Bark back at the Curmudgeon: Are you tired of reading all the Curmudgeon's outrageous views without having an opportunity to "bark" back? Or perhaps you just want to comment on a particular article you've read in Curmudgeon's Corner. Well, here's your chance: just e-mail the Curmudgeon at johnholditch@curmudgeonscorner.net (all one long, lower case word). If you sign your name and indicate your town and state, and reference the article, I'll post your comment in this space if you request it, and if it's not too long or profane. Or if you just want to tell me off in private, now you have the cyber address to do so!

Current (or not so current) Content:

One of the difficulties of maintaining a personal website such as Curmudgeon's Corner, particularly if you are as "Internet Challenged" as your Curmudgeon and do not have professional web-hosting, is that one tends to be limited by the "one size fits all" format of a standardized website design, not to mention the indolence of the site's author in not taking the time to learn how to create internal links, etc. Thus, sadly, there are no archives and once a piece such "A Death in the Family" eulogizing Belle, my son-in-law's late dog, is taken down, it is gone for good. Accordingly, I tend to leave articles or postings up longer than I should, particularly if I like them, as I do "The Dog in the Field" on the Popular Culture page. I also apologize for the fact that in order to reach, say, the twenty-first article on the News Views page,"A Word to the President and American Public from T. Jefferson" it is necessary to scroll down on that page through all of the higher positioned articles. So, without more ado or further apologies, here is what (and where) you can currently find posted on Curmudgeon's Corner:

"Honest Loyalty" to President Trump in Short Supply (June, 2017)
the first article on News Views;

The Media Pursues its Unicorn Through the Political Landscape (May, 2017) the second article on News Views;

The Incredible, Shrinking 'Big Tent' of the G.O.P. (November, 2012) the third article on News Views;

A Lawless Administration Reaps What It Has Sown (June, 2004), the sixteenth article on News Views;

This Is Not Your Father's Republican Party (originally posted in four segments: Foreign Policy, Limited Government and Fiscal Responsibility, Civil Liberties, and Basic Honesty and Ethics in September, October, December and February of 2003-2004) the seventeenth article on News Views;

Whose War? written by Patrick J. Buchanan and posted here with the gracious permission of The American Conservative (April, 2003) the eighteenth article on News Views;